Here are collected a few texts of
various sorts, at various levels of the Jamaican creole continuum. They are in
different formats -- some include phonological transcription, gloss and
translation, others occur in discourse transcription only, with a few features
noted, etc.

Most of the ones I'll put up are
ones I have gathered myself, but not all of them: for example, I have
transcribed the first few lines of dialogue from Perry Henzell's 1972 movie The Harder They Come (an excellent film in terms of displaying Jamaican urban life at
the start of the 1970s), and some tapes recorded by other linguists in Jamaica,
e.g. the late David DeCamp.

1.The Mango Story: a small narrative of indignation, recorded August
10, 1989 by Peter
L. Patrick in Kingston.

3.Roasta's Harangue:part of an argument between two young men in their 20s,
best friends, recorded November 9, 1989, by Peter L. Patrick from the backseat of
a car driving through downtown Kingston.

4.Anansi a Mek Grong:an Anansi story, or traditional West African-descended
folktale, told June 1958 by Mr. J. D. Lewis of Belmont, Portland JA, to David
DeCamp, who recorded it (transcription by Peter L. Patrick).

5.Shootout in the Barbershop: a danger-of-death narrative set in the
political violence of Jamaica's 1980 election year; recorded November 12, 1989,
by Peter L. Patrick in a working-class 'yard' in East Kingston.

6.Sweet and Dandy: the classic Maytals song, a portrait of a Jamaican
country wedding.